Charles Atkins
The Practice Sessions
Tom's Studio, Tallahassee, FL
May 25, 1993

ca1993-05-25.flac16

Taped by: SCopeland
Transfered by: SCopeland

Recorded via Yamaha 16 track SBD > 2 track cassette mono 
Digitized using Griffin iMic and Final Vinyl at 32 bit (transferred to wav/flac at 16 bit) using my G4 iBook.  

August 07 - quiet times at Torreya State Park - SCopeland 

01 Everyone Wanna Get Married
02 Caught Up in the Rapture of Love
03 God Bless the Child
04 God Bless the Child
05 House Is Not a Home
06 House Is Not a Home
07 Little Run-around
08 Profusion
09 Fast Horse
10 Hush-a-bye Baby
11 Hush-a-bye Baby
12 Lost Horse
13 Vegetables
14 Vegetables
15 Vegetables
16 Eat Your Vegetables

@ 1.5 hours; 950 meg aiff or wav

Highlights:
Tracks 1 2 3 9 11 16


Players:
Charles Atkins - keyboards and vocals
The Blues Boys
Larry Laseur - harmonica
Harty Wiedemann - guitar
Tom Henning - guitar
with Matt Thiebault - bass & RC - drums

This is a little different tonight, a bit jazzier, in part I think because Matt Thiebault is playing his fretless bass. He sure is fired up. As is Charles and he starts right out with a new song, him and Mr Rhodes, a great song - Everyone Wanna Get Married. After that - Caught Up in the Rapture of Love - sort of a Stevie Wonder type song, not that I know much about pop or contemporary music. Track 3 - God Bless the Child - is cool; it really showcases Matt's bass work, and of course Charles responds.

A House is Not a Home doesn't do much for me, and then it's back to the blues with Little Run-around, but that is a little off too, that or it doesn't fit with the other songs so far. I'm thinking there must have been other songs played but not recorded. Profusion is Matt starting a line, Charles and Harty are talking at first but when RC starts drumming, the guitar gets into and then Charles on the keys. Nice jam.

So, now the second part of the session - it's after midnight but Charles wants to play some children's songs. I guess Matt and RC have left, and the Boys are talking in the back. Unfortunately they were near an open mic so it distracts somewhat. Fast Horse is a hoot, the clippity clops and all. Hush-a-bye, that's me on the second take talking about how hypnotic the song is; way cool how the vocals mesh with the sound of the Rhodes. I suggest the Horse song again but Charles lost the rhythm on it so he keeps poking around till I mention Vegetables (I had a list of song titles and other things Charles said or wanted to do). The first 2 takes he is making it up and then the last one - Eat Your Vegetables - is a blast with Larry rumbling around in it and both cracking up.

Going thru my notes, I discovered that I am missing the tape for next week's session, 6-10-93. Notes say it was Matt & RC, and Baker. So that's 2 drummers plus some lady named Yvette who sang Hit the Road Jack, Rapture, and God Bless the Child. Too bad the tape is gone.

